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Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Jean Baudrillard

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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Photographer
Professor
Sociologist
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Rheims
Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
Simulacrum
Illusion
Longer
Possible
Real

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